Posts by Infarction

Precisely. Religion has been around since the beginning of man. Religion has evolved as our technology and understanding of the universe has. It is more likely than not that the human unconscious created 'religion' in hopes of explaining the unexplained and creating a purpose for mankind. Someone probably came up with the idea of a/many supreme beings, and the people liked this idea. And so, over time religion has evolved from the original pagan polytheistic ideologies to modern christian monotheism.

Isn't scientific research also a hope of "explaining the unexplained"? Lots of people have come up with theories of specific dynamics that govern the universe without being able to prove their origin, and people liked this idea. And so over time, science has evolved from the original voodoo to modern scientific methodology.

Oh, and Christianity isn't the only religion. There's many more out there, and some of them are as popular as ever.

I'm no expert about political ideologies by any means, but don't communism and socialism have some pretty big differences between them?

Or maybe religion has always been in existence. Religion is believing in some kind of deity, and throughout the ages, there has always been someone believing in that. Whether it be Allah, Jehovah, Greek gods, or some cow that certain people think is 'holy,' religion has always been around.

To add to the list some people also regard logical reasoning and scientific facts as a "holy truth" :P

"Democrat" and "Republican" are references most non-American's wont quite understand. I don't associate myself with either party either; I'm mostly moderate but slightly conservative (adapted the the USian scale of moderate and conservative :icon_wink:). And I'm definitely a capitalist.

Sure, but first you'll have to help yourself. We won't do it for you, so show what you've considered so far and why you think it's right or wrong and what you're stuck on.

My crystal ball tells me you're calling pop() before you've called push(). It could also be due to a mismatch.

For more detailed analysis, provide more details, such as how the stack works or an input string that causes the error.

what about sed "s/$stringa/$stringb/g" $filename ?

Is it getting the day counts right though? Maybe if you just rearrange the values for the days it'll straighten out...

Nope, you've got the loop. Remember, j is going from 1 to the current month. So if you pass j, it'll look up the days in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, ... nth month. :icon_wink:

As I recall, the ASCII for a space is 32, not 0127 (which is a 'W'). I recommend you look at the isspace(int) function available from <ctype.h> as it will match all whitespace characters (spaces, newlines, tabs, etc...)

Optimization techniques: link link For the second one, pay attention to the sections titled "Bottlenecks" and "When to optimize" since those don't seem to be sinking in

I actually didn't test the leap year code. What's happening is you're adding the last year before it's over, skewing the result by that number of days. Ditto with the month. If you change the <= in getTotalNoOfDays to just a < it'll fix that problem. There's another problem in that you call getNoOfDaysInMonth with mo each time. That'll just call it with the same month over and over; you should be using j instead. It's like adding the days in April several times when you want to add January, February, and March instead.

What exactly is the problem with all these 'games'? Even if we did move them to a separate forum, these games would obviously still be the most active.. Besides, I think the geek's lounge is a perfect place for geeky games.. There are very few discussions in the geek's lounge anyway..

damn, whats up with only html tags working now.. ie. for italics, breaks, and underlining..

As tgreer, WaltP, and I have been repeating lately, read what we're saying. There's nothing particularly wrong with the games, they're just poorly located. And, since you brought it up, they are hardly geeky. They physics game is the only one that could count as geeky IMHO, and it's almost off the first page.

From a quick skim of Wikipedia articles for each of them, they seem largely unrelated. Thermal hysteresis seems to be the range of temperatures at which a solution will undergo a given state change. Hysteresis in general seems to be the phenomenon of systems which undergo a lagged reaction to the addition and then removal of a force and it's effect. Electromigration seems to be the process of actual material moving around during the operating life of a circuit.

Other than that, I'd never heard of the two before :icon_wink:

You add an extra year to the result, plus the number of days in the selected month. January 1800 comes out as 396, or 365+31.

Okay, then why is everyone still arguing about it? If someone is doing something to try and fix the problem, then I think everyone should just stay calm for the moment and wade it out.

I agree. I think we've pretty much flushed out both sides by now, though I couldn't have said the same a few days ago.

I'm actually an agnostic as well. I don't know whether God exists or not, and as such I don't claim one way or the other. How can you say how much I've considered the topic? I actually spend a lot of time thinking about it, as well as considering ideas proposed by other faiths. Oh, and you're not confusing atheism and agnosticism are you? You've mentioned both, but it seems to be in reference to the same idea.

Were you born this way or have you worked at this your whole life?

btw...this is a rhetorical remark, not reply will be needed.

I'm not sure whether to file that under "Personal judgments I could care less about" or "Lamest comebacks ever." But I do find it fun to buck the trend and go against the crowd.

Maybe you should just read this post again. The part where is talks about 'PMing Dani.'

Dani is certainly aware of the problem. She's got a lot on her plate at the moment, but she's figuring out how she wants to handle the situation.

Oh, I was just joking around in that post.. I did not intend to criticize anyone.. I just didn't want to explain what had happened in the previous posts.

And I am certainly not closed-minded, b/c I was once christian.. you were never atheist.

You are closed minded. You refuse to allow for the possibility that something could be true. It doesn't matter if you've jumped sides of the fence; you're not allowing for the possibility of being wrong. And it's not just Christians vs. scientists. Many scientists claim to be Christians or to belong to another faith. There's more to religion than just Christianity.

It's a solution for the people who spend 90% of their time playing games in the GL. It's not a solution for the rest, it's a pain.

When Dani gets around to it. I think it's kind of nice the way it is though. I feel extra powerful, now that I can carry out one-sided -rep wars :icon_twisted:

There's nearly half a dozen people that have voiced strong opinions against the games being in the Geek Lounge. Don't keep saying that only one person is complaining. And the point we're trying to make is that if we don't go to the GL, we'll go elsewhere. And take our business with us. Daniweb as a whole will suffer, and we don't what that to happen. We understand your point, we aren't against the concept of the word games. We just don't want them clogging up the space that we'd rather maintain a more selective material. And AFAICT nobody has complained against the discussions.

I don't have anything against Microsoft, and I doubt there will be much of a change in my life time.. but, you've got to admit: Piracy is at an all time high. People download torrents of software and keygeneraters all the time! If this trend continues, then Microsoft and other major software companies will undoubtedly go bankrupt. These companies need to find some way to fight piracy (especially from China) if they wish to exist in the future.. And they shouldn't count on the law, b/c that obviously hasn't scared many people into stopping.

I will admit that piracy is at an all time high. I will also say that it's a serious issue. I will further point out that companies are still able to make a profit. While this can - and is - used as an argument to advocate (or at least not condemn) piracy, it's based on stupid and selfish reasonings. And it then negatively affects consumers who are following the law.

How about dropping the sarcasm and simply explain your point.

It would also be nice if you would provide us with links to the information that you are basing this on.

I though my point was fairly obvious from the abundance of sarcasm. Piracy and open-source are not solutions. Piracy is a problem at best. Open-source is simply an ideology for people not interested in making a profit. However, commerce is driven by profits, and so open-source is an irrational methodology for contemporary economics.

lol.. tgreer seems to be a bitter old man. No offense, but he is continually complaining about teenagers, talking down to us, and just flat out flaming. I'm sorry that we're young and do things differently than your used to.. If you don't like it, then don't go to the Geek's lounge!

If you'd actually read what he's saying, it's not a complaint against teenagers. It's a complaint against the people that come to Daniweb and transform it from being a highly technical and professional site to one where they can come to hang out and play childish games. Such activities will eventually lead to the long-term technical users finding other places that better suit their interests, and nobody really want that to happen. Except perhaps some of those who are only interested in the games.

Notice I didn't name anyone :P

>but perhaps in the future we will finally be able to disprove all religions.
Don't sound so hopeful, it could backfire. What if some religion were proven to be true?

> Christians are constantly changing, and breaking off into different sects.
So are scientists.

>One day we will discover something that is in complete opposition of religion..
We have it. People like you, who think that science is the perfect answer even though it still has many faults.

Well, you knew this would happen sooner or later.. Everything nowadays is being leaked, and published all over the internet. There is no stopping it.. You can pretty much download ANYTHING you want (including OS, music, programs, etc.) illegally from the internet. The fall of huge corporations such as microsoft and apple is not far off.. Soon, (hopefully) there will be nothing but linux and open source!

Or perhaps these corporations will find ways to profit from their products in other ways.. or maybe they will find some way to censor the web, and crush all those who pirate. Who knows?

Great. The highlights of your post: the destruction of one of the most profitable industries we currently have, which includes massive unemployment (for example, Microsoft employs 40,000+ people within 20 miles of here, and that's just one company); then we can look forward to unstandardized, irregular beta-quality software which is only half-compliant with hardware. Sure, it's got a great ideology behind it, but their production is not up to snuff. And you're supporting illegal actions (intent to steal) in order to bring this about. Not to mention, you'd lose a lot of the competition that open-source is trying desperately to catch up to, so there'd be a lot less incentive for development. :icon_rolleyes:

Also in agreement with tgreer. And while the gaming crowd seems to stress the "lounge" part of it, I prefer to emphasize the "geek" part of it. At this point, I'm spending more time going to other forums when I want some intellectual off-topic discussions. The games are in the way and annoying to work around; putting them in a separate sub-forum is a good way to keep them isolated for those who really want them.

Or maybe science is a defense mechanism against the truth? There's so much we've based scientific theories on, without hard evidence of how or why they work. We just have some observations which lend themselves to the theories that have been put together (rather, the theories were made to match the observations). Take the evolution of modeling an atom. There's been several models, each of which has been developed according to information available at the time. All but the current model were later found to be lacking for one reason or another, and hence were thrown out or modified to fit the new data. That's how science works. Religion provides a high-level, abstract source of how things were created and then doesn't worry about the details. It's two different methods of explaining how the universe works. Neither one is definitively right or wrong, unless we consult an omniscient source.

Definitely consider in-state public schools, as they'll be a lot cheaper and aren't always all that bad. And you'll probably qualify for deferred interest loans, so you can pay them back after you're out of school. I didn't really have any extracurriculars, but supposedly they're good to have and it looks like you've got plenty. Scholarships will probably depend a lot on how well you write essays. I didn't try for any though, so don't know how hard it is.

The companies aren't willing to release the information. Someone somewhere reverse engineered it and publicized it; with DRM as unpopular as it is on the web, people are happy to support breaking the mechanism. The companies who created the technology or who depend on it tried to stop it from spreading, but they couldn't keep it in.

An aside: as a Linux enthusiast, I still realize that mandating an open industry would ruin most corporations. Closed source is perfectly reasonable. And at some level, any product worthwhile is not closed source (yes, that includes Microsoft products as well - do you think the US government would use Windows without seeing the source code? And the Chinese government as well?)

discussions and games are quite different :icon_wink:

The key used for most of the DRMed HD-DVD and BluRay products is out, so now people can decode the data without using proprietary software. Some companies are throwing a fit that the key has been publicized on the internet, and there's a fuss about whether the key should be censored or not.

At school I'm getting similarly slow load times and script timeouts. That's on Firefox 1.5.0.10 on Linux, no add-ons installed.

god that's ugly

Were it not for the 37 pages minus the couple I have read, I'd consider it. I predict that there's a lot of back and forth conversing with little argumentative progress for most of it though. Since you have read it all, would you be so kind as to give a brief summary?

I think I'll try running mine through the JS profiler that Mozilla's got out. I'm recompiling Firefox atm (ah, the drawbacks of a source-based distro), but I'll try it tomorrow assuming I remember. I'm not having the JQuery error (just a few urchinTracker undefined errors and lots of css ones), so maybe it's just getting caught up somewhere.

We whupped 'em in 1776 and 1812, then saved their butts in WWII. What can they throw at us now? :icon_twisted:

It was such a ridiculous statement that I assumed it could only be sarcastic. If I was mistaken, well, then it was a ridiculous statement and should be ridiculed, but I'm too tired :P

On the contrary, there is little evidence to support Christianity. If anything, science refutes the idea of a supreme ruler of the universe. There is no scientific data that backs up religion..

What evidence refutes the idea of a supreme creator? Seems like many scientists are noting that things work out suspiciously well to have happened by chance...

We need more wars. If we ahd another world war or something then all the worlds population problems would be solved.

Glad you're such an expert at sarcasm. For the benefit of others, please accompany sarcasm with an emoticon to emphasize the effect. :icon_wink:

Then there'd be no point to bad rep; you'd just remove it. Let Dani get the new layout figured out, then she can decide what to do with the rep system.

If anyone there used America Online, they ought to be shot. Same for people over here who use it. :icon_twisted:

For me it was happening randomly, regardless of page. Just opening a few now (it's not nearly as bad as it used to be), shorter pages seem to render a couple seconds faster, but still somewhat slowly. That's on my system at least (Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Linux; 6M/40k cable modem).

You're not weird, MSN is the dominant protocol outside of the US. Stupid AOL had to screw things up over here, so that we all have to have 2 different protocols... :icon_evil:

Presumably anyone who monitors Digg or Slashdot will already know, but the cryptographic key for AACS (the standard used in HD-DVD and BluRay) has been leaked and is spreading like a virus. What do you think the repercussions will be? Is it good that the key leaked?

Yeah, I'd noticed lots of things changing back and forth. I figure you're plenty busy for now, so hopefully it'll get figured out in the next couple days :icon_wink:

So, I actually splurged and donated :D but I'm still getting slow load times, probably from the JS for the fancy effects. Load times are tending to be anywhere from 2-15 seconds, though shorter ones are typically cached pages.

<plug> Everyone else ... you can enjoy a true ad-free DaniWeb by donating for a few dollars a month. </plug>

If I could get the 1-year thing but pay each month, I'd have signed up a couple minutes ago... unfortunately, I can't take the 1-year rate atm... (and I'm too cheap to do it a month at a time :P)

Taking Dani's post to heart, I turned off my adblocker (AdBlock Plus 0.7.5) and it sped things up significantly.